All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 18 2022 // The Surplus Line Association of California board voted to drop the association’s stamping fee to 0.18%.Effective Jan. 1, 2023, the stamping fee will adjust downward from its current 0.25% level that took effect on...
Jul 18 2022 // San Diego County will pay $8.1 million to the family of an unarmed man who was shot in the back by a sheriff’s deputy after he jumped out of a patrol car.The county and the family of Nicholas Bils agreed to settle a...
Jul 18 2022 // Payments for medical-legal services used to resolve medical disputes over compensability issues in California work injury claims have risen sharply under the new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule that took effect last year, a new...
Jul 18 2022 // Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners.The...
Jul 18 2022 // In the annals of how the pandemic changed things, toss in a positive tale from insurer CSAA Insurance Group.Walnut Creek, California-based CSAA, a AAA Insurer, offers automobile, homeowners and other personal lines of...
Jul 13 2022 // PCF Insurance Services acquired Andreini & Company in San Mateo, California. Andreini & Company specializes in industry niches such as agriculture, aviation, transportation, oil & gas and equine mortality. The...
Jul 12 2022 // California firefighters were gaining ground in the battle against a wildfire that poses a threat to a grove of giant sequoias and a small community in Yosemite National Park.The Washburn Fire on the western flank of the...
Jul 12 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara ordered insurance companies to preserve residential insurance coverage for more than 85,000 policyholders affected by fires in Santa Barbara County and Monterey County after...
Jul 12 2022 // Q’Orianka Kilcher, 32, of North Hollywood, has been charged with two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud.An investigation by the California Department of Insurance reportedly found Kilcher...
Jul 11 2022 // A wildfire threatening the largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park more than doubled in size in a day, and firefighters were working in difficult terrain Sunday to protect the iconic trees and a small...
Jul 11 2022 // About 70,000 truck owner-operators who form the bedrock of California’s transport industry are in limbo as state-level labor rules start applying to them, creating another choke point in stressed US supply...
Jul 11 2022 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a special investigation into a recent crash of a Cruise self-driving vehicle in California that resulted in minor injuries, the agency said on Thursday.The auto...
Jul 8 2022 // A former Southern California woman who, along with her doctor husband, billed insurers $44 million for unnecessary cosmetic surgeries was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.Linda Morrow, 70, also was ordered to pay...
Jul 7 2022 // Favorable weather early Wednesday aided the fight against a wildfire in California’s Gold Country that has forced evacuations in two counties.The Electra Fire had burned 6.4 square miles of rural terrain but it was...
Jul 7 2022 // A 9-year-old boy who was badly injured in a Northern California commuter train crash that killed three other people has died, according to a GoFundMe page set up for his family.Julien Nieves of Dixon died this week of...
Jul 6 2022 // Foster & Foster Consulting Actuaries Inc. has completed its acquisition of California-based Bartel Associates LLC. Bartel’s core business is focused in performing Other Postemployment Benefits consulting. Bartel...
Jul 6 2022 // Evacuation orders were expanded Tuesday for remote California communities near a wildfire that may have been sparked by fireworks or a barbecue on the Fourth of July in a mountainous region that’s a top tourism...
Jul 5 2022 // Payments for medical-legal services used to resolve medical disputes over compensability issues in California work injury claims have risen sharply under the new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule that took effect last year, a new...
Jul 5 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired La Mesa, Calif.-based Wrightman, Inc., doing business as Surety Associates of Southern California Insurance Services. Cyndi Beilman and her associates will continue to operate from...
Jul 5 2022 // San Diego County will pay $8.1 million to the family of an unarmed man who was shot in the back by a sheriff’s deputy after he jumped out of a patrol car.The county and the family of Nicholas Bils agreed to settle a...